Probation, $5K restitution for ex-Purdue football player who punched woman

Booted Purdue University football player Sean P. Collins will spend 275 days on probation and must complete 40 hours of work crew service for punching a woman in the face last summer outside a West Lafayette bar.

The sentence was handed down Tuesday in Tippecanoe Superior Court 5, after 21-year-old Collins pleaded guilty to battery resulting in bodily injury, a misdemeanor. Additional misdemeanor counts of resisting law enforcement and public intoxication were dropped under a plea agreement with the Tippecanoe County prosecutor's office.

Collins must also pay $5,404.16 in restitution to the victim, 22-year-old Holly Fullerton of Monticello. He's further banned from using or possessing alcoholic beverages or controlled substances and cannot enter any taverns, bars or liquor stores while on probation.

The incident took place about 1 a.m. on July 14, 2012, outside the former location of Where Else? bar, 304 W. State St., in West Lafayette's Village.

Fullerton told investigators that she and a group of friends were standing outside Where Else? when Collins approached them, allegedly to pick a fight with her male acquaintance, according to court documents.

After Fullerton tried to intervene, Collins grabbed her arm and hit her cheek with his fist.

Fullerton was treated at a Lafayette hospital and released the same day.

Then-coach Danny Hope dismissed Collins from Purdue's football team on July 15. Collins joined the Boilermakers in 2009 as a walk-on and was on the roster in 2010 and 2011.

-Sophia Voravong/svoravong@jconline.com

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Probation, $5K restitution for ex-Purdue football player who punched woman

Booted Purdue University football player Sean P. Collins will spend 275 days on probation and must complete 40 hours of work crew service for punching a woman in the face last summer outside a West